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praveena H M
praveena H M

Reputation: 176

How to change the device language in xamarin forms

I am working on RTL in xamarin forms. I need to show Right to left flow direction on click of a button. I was working from morning. I didn't get the solution. I got only language changes means if I want Arabic I can do by using multilingual plugin. But I need to change the flow direction. How to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 711

Answers (2)

Shiblu
Shiblu

Reputation: 477

In Android Manifest file, enable RTL like below

<application android:label="MyApp" android:supportsRtl="true">
    <!--others-->
</application>

Note that RTL is available in android from API 17+

In the iOS project, enable Arabic culture by adding it to the CFBundleLocalizations in info.plist file-

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>
<key>CFBundleLocalizations</key>
<array>
    <string>en</string>
    <string>ar</string>
</array>

In the Forms project, set flow direction (by default it is Right oriented) to ContentPage, Labels etc.

FlowDirection="{x:Static Device.FlowDirection}"

Setting Arabic culture will automatically change the page's Flow direction to RightToLeft if it's specified like above.

Upvotes: 0

Bruno Caceiro
Bruno Caceiro

Reputation: 7189

You just need to set the FlowDirection in your page / visual elements.

<ContentPage ... FlowDirection="{x:Static Device.FlowDirection}"> />

Or, if you don't want to set based on the device language, you can just set one of these available options

public enum FlowDirection
    {
        MatchParent = 0,
        LeftToRight = 1,
        RightToLeft = 2,
    }

You can read more in the Official Documentation

Upvotes: 1

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